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Original Post: DVCS vs Subversion smackdown, round 3
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That title is probably a little pretentious, since the topic of rival version control systems has probably gone a few zillion more rounds than that. The context here is that in a previous blog post I argued that the recent rise of DVCS (Git, Mercurial) is less due to their essential D (distributed) nature, but the accidental weaknesses of Subversion, the dominant centralized VCS. The weaknesses I